There is growing evidence that music can induce a wide range of visual imagery. To date,
however, there have been few thorough investigations into the specific content of music …

Listening to pleasurable music is known to engage the brain's reward system. This has
motivated many cognitive-behavioral interventions for healthy aging, but little is known about …

Music is often described in the laboratory and in the classroom as a beneficial tool for
memory encoding and retention, with a particularly strong effect when words are sung to …

Accumulating evidence suggests that the neural activations during music listening differs as
a function of familiarity with the excerpts. However, the implicated brain areas are unclear …

We investigated how repeated exposure to a stimulus affects intersubject synchrony in the
brains of young and older adults. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to …

Exposure to sound energy may be a risk factor or a therapeutic intervention for Alzheimer's
disease (AD). On one hand, noise has a harmful effect on people with AD by contributing to …

Numerous previous studies have shown the effectiveness of music therapy in enhancing
cognitive functions in patients with dementia. Despite this, robust evidence in this field …

Subjective factors of music have been proven to significantly influence the effect of music
masking, while the neural mechanism of music masking is unknown. This study aims to …

Music and language are structurally similar. Such structural similarity is often explained by
generative processes. This paper describes the recent development of probabilistic …

Listening to pleasurable music is known to engage the brain's reward system, but little is
known about how this engagement develops over time. Here we show for the first time that …